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Top 20 best selling hip-hop albums in 2021

List of the best selling albums in 2021 has been officially announced and we took a look at the bet selling hip-hop albums this year.

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy occupies the first spot with over 1.8 million album equivalent units sold, followed by Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon with almost 1.5 million units.

One of the most surprising appearances is Eminem at number 20 (number 49 overall in every genre) with his greatest hits album, Curtain Call: The Hits which was released back in 2005. It has shifted a whopping 673,000 copies in 2021 alone.

It should also be noted that almost every album in Top 20 are released either in 2021 or 2020, only Eminem’s Billboard-record holder album was released 15 years ago.

Check the list of best selling hip-hop albums in 2021 below:

1. Drake – Certified Lover Boy (2021) – 1,850,000 units sold.

2. Pop Smoke – Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon (2020) – 1,473,000.

3. Doja Cat – Planet Her (2021) – 1,403,000.

4. Lil Baby – My Turn (2020) – 1,175,000.

5. Moneybagg Yo – A Gangsta’s Pain (2021) – 1,121,000.

6. Juice WRLD – Legends Never Die (2020) – 1,085,000.

7. Polo G – Hall Of Fame (2021) – 1,054,000.

8. Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding (2020) – 1,043,000.

9. Lil Durk – The Voice (2020) – 980,000.

10. J. Cole – The Off-Season (2021) – 979,000.

11. Lil Nas X – Montero (2021) – 960,000.

12. Juice WRLD – Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018) – 922,000.

13. Kanye West – Donda (2021) – 916,000.

14. Pooh Shiesty – Shiesty Season (2021) – 898,000.

15. Lil Baby & Lil Durk – The Voice Of The Heroes (2021) – 882,000.

16. Megan Thee Stallion – The News (2020) – 798,000.

17. Doja Cat – Hot Pink (2019) – 710,000.

18. Lil Tjay – Destined 2 Win (2021) – 676,000.

19. Travis Scott – ASTROWORLD (2018) – 674,000.

20. Eminem – Curtain Call: The Hits (2005) – 673,000.

Via HitsDailyDouble.

 

Westside Boogie talks how Rihanna changed his life forever, relationship with Eminem, new album & more

Shady Records’ Westside Boogie has recently set down on Nothing Beats Experience podcast with Smoothvega where the Compton rapper talked about Rihanna, Eminem, signing to LVRN and Shady Records, his upcoming album, mental health and more.

About Rihanna

I was on tour with Denzel Curry when Rihanna sang my ‘Ni**a Needs’ video. I had been signed to Interscope for couple of years and I still only had like 10k followers. So, when Rihanna posted me, I thought it was fake, I thought it was fake page. She posted me and my followers went up from 10K to 150k in like 30 minutes. That’s a power of Rihanna. So Rihanna singlehandedly changed my career forever. I’m forever grateful for her.

Hard times at Interscope

So, I was still on a shelve of Interscope after two years. That was tough for me. Going through ups and downs. All my friends thinking I’m super rich but I was still barely being able to take care of my kid at that time, even though I was signed to one of the biggest labels in the world.

Signing to LVRN and Shady Records

One day, my AR from Interscope told me ‘We have to figure out something. It’s that management group called LVRN and I really feel you are good match’ and at the same time, I randomly got a call from Eminem. I don’t know how the universe did that to me or why it did for me but I think its my constant belief in myself and not giving up. Got a call from Eminem. He said he wanted to meet me. Flew me out to Detroit. And next thing you know, I was signed to Eminem.

His musical influences

I’m such a singing, RnB headass ni**a. I was listening nothing but gospel music at the beginning. Then there was slowly transition to Lauryn Hill. There was a gospel movie “Sister Act 2.” Once I saw it, I thought oh I love this girl. I love Lauryn Hill. And then somehow JAY-Z was introduced into my life. I don’t know how it happened. I think that was the first artist I searched down on my own and I fell in love with Jay. And then I fell in love with Wayne. They are two artists that I ever idolized.

About Eminem 

We went to the studio in Detroit. It’s always the same thing with Tracy: “Marshall’s ready for you now,” “Marshall’s ready to see you.” He’s like freaking president. And that’s the part that makes me nervous when she come by like that. Tracy, I love her but she scares me too. Eminem is dope. Before I met him, I was like ‘that’s one of the biggest rapper ever, he is not gonna act like human but then when I met him, he was like just another person trying to figure life out and that’s dope to me. He even knew my songs that was not popular. He knew those songs. He was telling me details about those songs and certain rhyme schemes I did. He was praising my bars it was best thing ever. I was like, oh, I love him. He really cares about the craft. He is so competitive, he’s not going to make you feel support, he going to kill everybody. [laughs] That’s what amazing about him.

His upcoming album

Best thing with working with Shady is that they just let me do my thing. Eminem just waits for me to bring him my new music to him. He does not put too much pressure on me. An album is done but I still have to go to the final Eminem-stage. I played the album to him couple of months ago. My problem is I always hate my songs from couple of months ago. I’m always critiquing myself. I probably have 5 to 10 album material because of that. I have a title of the album but I can’t say it.

Then Boogie continues talking about mental health. You can watch the full interview below:

J. Cole shows love to Eminem & Royce 5’9″ in the new interview with Nardwuar

Finally, Nardwuar landed his J. Cole interview. The interview with Dreamville head honcho has been at least a couple years in the making.

In almost 1 hour long interview, J. Cole briefly talked about getting inspired by Canibus, Eminem, Royce 5’9″ and Big L.

“Canibus was huge inspiration on my teenage years of rapping. Just ferocious, barred up, lyrical, punch lines, any cypher, any gathering of three or more people that wanted to rap, destroying it. That was my whole mo, my forte and Canibus was big part of that. Eminem was big part of that. Royce 5’9″ as big part of that, Big L was big part of that.” – said Cole.

At one point during the interview (After 43 minutes), J. Cole confirmed that he told Dr. Dre about Kendrick Lamar: “Who told you that? Who gave you that piece of information? The answer is yes, I did. I’m not gonna say I was the first to tell him but when Dre was working on Detox album, yes, I was like ‘you gotta sign this kid from Compton. Shout out to Dr. Dre, he made right decision.”

You can watch it below:

Grip drops new freestyle over Nas’ “Wave Gods”

Grip spits new freestyle over Nas’ latest track “Wave Gods,” featuring A$AP Rocky and DJ Premier from Escobar’s latest album “Magic.”

The Shady Records’ hitman opens the track with the shoutout to the legendary figures of hip-hop: “Yeah, shoutout that ni**a Nas, man / One of my f**kin’ favorites / Ni**a, I heard this beat and I had to do it, ahaha / Yeah, shoutout the ni**a Hit-Boy too… Uh, one take.”

East Atlanta’s finest also makes dope reference to Eminem with the following lines: “I’m eatin beats up wit Slim til I’m at least up some M’s” and warns his peers that 2022 belongs to him “It’s been quite a year, I see you boys 2022.”

You can bump the new freestyle below:

50 Cent: “I love Eminem to death, I’m so grateful what he did for me”

50 Cent has recently spoken exclusively on Express UK about his BMF series, which featured a big role from Snoop Dogg and a cameo from Eminem as a White Boy Rick.

In the new interview, Fifty talked about the 7th episode that he directed and had an Eminem cameo.

“Working with Eminem was great. I think it was the comfortability of me directing that even allowed him to say yes to that. He was like ‘well, what are we doing? ‘Cause we are doing it.’ It’s not like someone else is telling me what to do, and I am uncomfortable.”

“It’s always easy for me to work with Em. I love Em to death, ‘cause that’s my guy. He launched my career. At the point that he’s saying ‘yo, 50’s gonna be the next biggest thing. He’s at 23 million copies sold on the Marshall Mathers LP. That was all he had to do for me music-wise, I took off. I was ready to go.”

“I remember that but some people forget. They look at it and say ‘I made you a lot of money.’ And I don’t look at it like that. I look at it like, ‘I’m so grateful for what you did.’” – said 50 Cent.

For the full interview , visit Express here.

MMA fans react after Eminem shouts out Nate Diaz in a new song with Dr. Dre

Few days ago, new Dr. Dre and Eminem song titled “Gospel” was released through the DLC for GTA V: “Grand Theft Auto: The Contract” update.

In the song, Eminem shouts out one of the most iconic UFC fighters, Nate Diaz, with the following lines: “Nate Diaz got the world by the tracheas. In a chokehold and a sleeper (Snores) / Yeah, and me and Dre are like dog hair (Woof).”

Nate Diaz has always been an Eminem fan and even walked out on one of his songs couple of times. He is often seen rocking to the songs of Eminem, including the time he was preparing for his fight against Anthony Pettis.

MMA fans are very pleased after Nate finally gets recognition from Eminem. Check some of the reactions below:

Watch: Dr. Dre’s “Detox” scene from GTA Online: The Contract

On the Grand Theft Auto’s expansion fans were introduced to the chance to discover new Dr. Dre tracks while working to find a lost phone full of unreleased music in the game.

In one of the scenes, Lamar accidently finds out Franklin’s new client is Dr. Dre: “Client? What client? What the F**K! Dre lost his phone? That man is physician! You know how important that is, man? I bet it’s all kind of s**t in that phone. I wonder what’s in that phone?!”

“Dude has been making beats for years! A LEGEND! Man, look, that mythical lost album (DETOX) up in that motherf**ka!”

You can watch the scene below!

Keyon Christ says Kanye West’s “Midas Touch” features Eminem, J. Cole, Pusha T & Rihanna

Former GOOD Music producer, Keyon Christ, there is a Kanye West song titled “Midas Touch” and the remix version of it features Eminem, J. Cole, Pusha T, Rihanna and Jeremih. Keyon said it in a recent question and answer session on Discord.

“Midas Touch” also referred as “Mitus Touch” is a reference track written and performed by Kanye West for Rihanna and it is produced by Keyon Christ.

Keyon also told to his fanbase that he’s going to release his vaulted music through NTF as it is the only legal way to share it to the world.

Kanye West and J. Cole version was surfaced online few years back. You can listen to it below:

For more details from Q&A, check the post below:

New Song: Dr. Dre – “Gospel,” ft. Eminem (GTA 5: The Contract)

It’s December 15 and whoever is playing GTA Online: The Contract, have already heard Dr. Dre’s new song “Gospel,” featuring Eminem.

The snippet of the song was first teased by Stat Dibiase on Instagram couple of days ago, now the most anticipated GTA track is fully out.

There are also few other songs that debut through GTA:

Dr. Dre – “The Scenic Route,” ft. Rock Ross & Anderson .Paak

Dr. Dre – “Fallin’ Up” ft. Marsha Ambrosius

Dr. Dre – “ETA,” ft. Anderson .Paak, Snoop Dogg & Busta Rhymes

Dr. Dre – “Diamond Mind,” ft. Nipsey Hussle & Ty Dolla $ign

Dr. Dre – “Black Privilege”

Dr. Dre – “Gospel,” ft. Eminem

You can listen to new Eminem and Dr. Dre song below:

Royce 5’9″ responds Icewear Vezzo’s interview about him & Eminem

Last week, Royce 5’9″ did an interview with Lando Bando’s TheHipHop Lab, where the Detroit legend called out rappers who complain about Eminem not giving young Detroit rappers a helping hand.

This week, Icewear Vezzo set down with Lando Bando and responded to Royce, agreeing Royce that Eminem is not obliged to do anything but if he was in Em’s shoe, you would act differently.

Yesterday, Royce responded back with an Instagram video, saying: “I don’t want none of this stuff to overshadow the way I feel about Vezzo, Young Veeze, Payroll, Peezy, Sada. I can just keep naming people. I’m extremely proud of you all. And I understand exactly how you feel. We don’t disagree on anything. I understand how you feel. I felt the same way when I was in your position. Maybe I said too much when I did my interview.” – said Royce

“Let me just say this: Feel how you feel. I’m not here to change, your feelings, validate your feelings. My job as an OG, is just, when you feel like to do something that can be done to rectify it or gets you to a better place, let me know, I’m here. In a meantime, I support all of you. A hundred percent. Keep doing your thing. I’m proud of you all. Alright? love and respect!” Royce added.

You can watch the video below (slide right to watch the full clip):

Dr. Dre reveals a title of his new album!

Dr. Dre has just revealed that he has completed recording a new album with English singer and songwriter Marsha Ambrosius. The album will be titled “Casablanco.”

“I just finished recording an album with Marsha Ambrosius. “Casablanco” – I had a blast! This is some of my best work!” said Dre on his Instagram post.

Dr. Dre and Marsha Ambrosius have previously collaborated on the legendary west-coast rapper’s 2015 album, titled Compton, for several tracks including “Satisfaction,” “Darkside/Gone,” “All in a Day’s Work,” and “Genocide,” also featuring Kendrick Lamar.

What we know about the project? Some of the music will debut through GTA Online: The Contract, releasing December 15. It is also confirmed that the album features Anderson .Paak, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and Eminem.

Aftermath Producer Dem Jointz shared Dr. Dre’s post with the caption: “CasaBlanco 2022, Dre x Marsha.” Which means, the album is dropping in 2022 but we will not be waiting too long as Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Mary J. Blige are set to perform at Super Bowl on February 13, 2022 and GTA is releasing on December 15, 2021. “Casablanco” will probably be released between these two dates.

Check Dre’s post below:

New Song: GRIP – “Spatula”

GRIP unleashes short but bar-heavy, hype-up new track titled “Spatula,” produced by Wili Hendrixs.

This is the first official release from GRIP after dropping 17-track Shady Records debut project I Died For This??, back in August, which featured guest appearances from Eminem, Kay Nellz, Kenny Mason, AHYES, Big Rube, Tate 228, Dead Casssettes, Wara, Royce Da 5’9”, and Wiley from Atlanta.

Some of the quotable lyrics from the new track includes: “Got leeches all on my dick, got b***hes all on my line / Hoppin’ in my DMs, really divin’ out the deep end / Tryna see if we can be friends, well, that depends / Gotta pretend only for the weekend / And don’t keep tabs on the cash he spend / Smash on the dash while your a*s leave him / I know you gotta get laid, but I gotta get paid / I got too many rats on my calendar.”

You can bump the “Spatula” below:

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